CLIFTON PARK -- The construction equipment was silent Friday afternoon, no doubt thanks to the snowstorm, but officials at Clifton Park Center say their new hotel and cinema will be open in time for next Christmas.

Work began last month on a five-story Hilton Garden Inn and a 10-screen cinema that Don MacElroy, vice president of DCG Development, says will be a state-of-the-art theater.

The 104-room hotel will include a conference center, and the cinema will replace an existing facility that will be demolished.

Clifton Park Center, which opened in the 1970s as Clifton Country Mall, has undergone a multi-year facelift that has attracted new tenants such as Chipotle and The Meat House.

Jos. A. Bank, a men's clothing store, will open in the spring, and construction on a new Olive Garden restaurant will begin in the third quarter. MacElroy also confirmed that Clifton Park Center is talking with Fuddrucker's, a restaurant chain, about moving into the center.

He declined to specity how much is being spent on the construction project, saying only that "it's going to be a significant investment."

Clifton Park Center is anchored by Boscov's department store and J.C. Penney, as well as a Marshall's Homegoods store.

The shopping center is on the south side of Route 146 just west of the Adirondack Northway.